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Wauzeka April 9th 1886.
Dear Papa & Carrie.
I will have a few lines to you to let you know how we get along and that we have got that shrubary ready to send we will send it the 10th or the 12th of this month Grandpa will take it down tomorrow or Monday if possible. We put in all that we could find so as to fill the box. We put butternuts in ? the roots to eat they are to dry to plant they will not grow I buried some acorns and hickory nuts and butternuts last fall but the ground is frozen so hard that I could'ent get them. Most of the ? we had set out over on our old place is dead Kreeche's did not take care of them. Grandpa got all he could. The tame plumbs have? not got any label
a sister)
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Description
| Resource identifier | SJSC0521-001(front) |
| Title | Letter to L.C. Larsen |
| Creator | Larsen, Selia |
| Subject |
Correspondence Families Gardening |
| Topic |
Domestic Life People, Race, Ethnicity & Culture Education |
| Location (subject) |
United States -- Washington -- San Juan county -- San Juan Islands -- San Juan Island -- Friday Harbor |
| Name(s) (subject) | Larsen, L.C.; Larsen, Selia; Larsen, Carrie |
| Description | Handwritten letter from Selia Larsen to Papa and Carrie, written April 9, 1886, mailed from Wauzeka, and found in the wall of a house on Argyle and Spruce. The house was built in 1910. |
| Publisher (digital) | Washington State Library |
| Publisher (original) | Selia Larsen |
| Date (digital) | 2009-04-18 |
| Date (original) | 1886-04-09 |
| Type |
Text |
| Language (iso code) |
eng |
| Contributing institution |
San Juan Island Library District San Juan Historical Museum Town of Friday Harbor San Juan Island National Historic Park |
| Collection |
San Juan Island Heritage -- San Juan Story Collection |
| Access file format |
image/jpeg |
| Access file specifications | filesize: 1,235,128 bytes; bit depth: 24; color mode: rgb; pixel dimensions: 753 x 1220; resolution: 150 ppi; compression software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 |
| Digitization specifications | master filesize: 96,880,440 bytes; master file format: image/tiff; bit depth: 48; color mode: rgb; pixel dimensions: 3208 x 5032; resolution: 600 ppi; capture hardware: Epson Perfection V750-M Pro |
| Source item specifications | holding institution: private collecction of Heather Anderson; extent and medium: 1 paper document, 3 pgs. with envelope; dimensions: 8 x 5 in.; other physical details: blue ink, green 2 cent stamp on envelope |
| Rights and use | The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Rights may be reserved; responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish or reproduce rests with the user. For additional information, please contact the San Juan Historical Museum. |
| Project |
2008grant page |
| Transcript | Wauzeka April 9th 1886. Dear Papa & Carrie. I will have a few lines to you to let you know how we get along and that we have got that shrubary ready to send we will send it the 10th or the 12th of this month Grandpa will take it down tomorrow or Monday if possible. We put in all that we could find so as to fill the box. We put butternuts in ? the roots to eat they are to dry to plant they will not grow I buried some acorns and hickory nuts and butternuts last fall but the ground is frozen so hard that I could'ent get them. Most of the ? we had set out over on our old place is dead Kreeche's did not take care of them. Grandpa got all he could. The tame plumbs have? not got any label a sister) |
| Archival file location | sanjuanVolume1_2012-07 |
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